Recent content by Stephes

We go every year. We will be arriving in our motor home 2 weeks before the show begins and camping at an electric and water site in Camp Scholler for the entire week of the show. Planning on doing some volunteer work this year as I started doing a couple of years ago.

Brian, your 114 is probably out of my price range but it sure is a beautiful aircraft. I am used to underpowered aircraft. I used to climb my Grumman Tiger up until the air was cool. When I flew it out to Los Angeles that meant 10,500 over the desert in New Mexico and Arizona...... Took me...

Thank you Marcos, that helps me a lot. My Grumman Tiger,(and it was a pretty rough Tiger)....it was pretty basic ....it did 130 KTS at 10 GPH....and I thought that was great...but to hear that a 112 will cruise at 130 KTS and 8.5gph with the wide cabin and comfort is impressive to me. I usually...

What do you guys usually see as far as a realistic cruise speed and fuel burn in the 112? What power settings is it happiest at? Does the turbo on the 112 make much of a difference?........We miss Anchorage too.....at least in the summers....we left because we didn't want to deal with the...

Thank you all for the comments! I live in Titusville Florida now that I am retired. I am thinking that a 112 will be a good fit as 95% of my flying will be just my wife and I with only occasional local sight seeing trips with someone in the back seat. I retired from UPS after 33 years there. I...

Hello, I joined yesterday. My name is Steve. I have been out of General Aviation flying since selling my last airplane 12 years ago. I have been looking at aircraft for some time now and the Commander's look to me to be one of the finest aircraft built. I recently retired from airline flying and...

I stayed at an INN on Green Lake about 20 years ago. It is 25 miles southwest of Oshkosh (35 min drive). I just now googled Inn's, B and B's and Hotels in Green Lake and a couple came up with good prices. The cheapest I saw was The Dartford Inn..... shows a room rate of $65 during Airventure. I...